Crossword-Solution: UNIVOCAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Univocal | a. | Having one meaning only; -- contrasted with equivocal. |
| Univocal | a. | Having unison of sound, as the octave in music. See Unison, n., 2. |
| Univocal | n. | Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular. |
| Univocal | n. | Unequivocal; indubitable. |
| Univocal | n. | A generic term, or a term applicable in the same sense to all the species it embraces. |
| Univocal | n. | A word having but one meaning. |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
EIVDIN
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"Delicious!"
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Sentences with UNIVOCAL (5)
But it was stated above that the word 'univocal' was applied to those things which had both name and definition in common.
Layers of understanding, together with rules for generating coherent expressions, were accumulated, checked against an infinity of concrete situations, related to signs still used (objects, sounds, gestures, colors, etc.), and freed from the demand of unequivocal or univocal meaning.
But when ideas come to expression in a faster rhythm, and turn in shorter cycles from the univocal to the ambiguous stage, the medium of literacy no longer does justice either to their practical function or to the dynamics of an individual's continuous self-constitution.
Procter and your happy self; but on Sunday (my only morning) I was engaged to a country walk; and in virtue of the hypostatical union between us, when Mary calls, it is understood that I call too, we being univocal.
Select from the following list of words such as are terms, and state whether they are (1) abstract or concrete, (2) singular or common, (3) univocal or equivocal:-- van table however enter decidedly tiresome very butt Solomon infection bluff Czar short although Caesarism distance elderly Nihilist.
Quotes with UNIVOCAL (3)
Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature — away from what has always been conceived and signified under that name — or that which, not merely escaping literature, implacably destroys it? (Posed in these terms, the question would already be caught in the assurance of a certain fore-knowledge: can “what has always been conceived and signified under that name” be considered fundamentally hom…
Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves in their effects. We could call them analogical. In language too all universal terms presuppose the non-univocal analogical use of the term *being*.
Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit, enclosed in itself, univocal, if you like, while sense cannot stay still, it seethes with second, third and fourth senses, radiating out in different directions that divide and subdivide into branches and branchlets, until they disappear from view, the sense of every word is like a star hurling spring tides out into space, cosmic winds,…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1951).